1 00:00:00,050 --> 00:00:00,539 Amen. 2 00:00:00,730 --> 00:00:01,220 Amen. 3 00:00:01,960 --> 00:00:05,990 You know, the table talk is so, uh, refreshing because we really do get 4 00:00:06,220 --> 00:00:09,619 to hear how people came in contact with the real Jesus and see that all 5 00:00:09,619 --> 00:00:13,160 of us have come from totally different backgrounds, totally different 6 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:18,079 lifestyles, but we all have been united to follow the real Jesus together. 7 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:18,559 Amen. 8 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:20,840 And that is so special and so encouraging. 9 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:25,140 And so today, as we dig into the Bible today, we're gonna continue 10 00:00:25,144 --> 00:00:26,840 studying out the Book of Luke. 11 00:00:26,930 --> 00:00:30,260 But I want to ask us a question here before we jump in. 12 00:00:30,260 --> 00:00:30,980 All right. 13 00:00:31,039 --> 00:00:34,010 Raise your hand if you have ever lost something before. 14 00:00:35,190 --> 00:00:35,679 Okay. 15 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:37,880 Kenny's like, Nope, never lost anything. 16 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:38,840 I'm responsible. 17 00:00:38,989 --> 00:00:39,980 I don't lose things. 18 00:00:41,179 --> 00:00:41,480 . Okay. 19 00:00:41,480 --> 00:00:43,429 Moses of us have lost stuff, right? 20 00:00:43,489 --> 00:00:49,610 Whether it's your cell phone, your car keys, uh, maybe it's your wallet or maybe 21 00:00:49,610 --> 00:00:54,980 you left a child sometime at church or at school One time I had a funny story. 22 00:00:54,980 --> 00:00:59,360 One time my dad left my sister at church and my mom and dad went home. 23 00:00:59,420 --> 00:01:02,719 Luckily church was only a minute from our house, but I ended up running outta 24 00:01:02,724 --> 00:01:04,069 the house cause I was gonna go save her. 25 00:01:04,069 --> 00:01:06,230 I was like eight years old and my parents like, what are you doing? 26 00:01:06,289 --> 00:01:07,639 Like, she can't even walk back. 27 00:01:07,644 --> 00:01:08,840 What do you get in the car? 28 00:01:09,404 --> 00:01:12,360 ? Um, but we all lose stuff, right? 29 00:01:13,190 --> 00:01:14,059 Another time. 30 00:01:14,119 --> 00:01:15,650 Um, I'll share this story here. 31 00:01:15,650 --> 00:01:17,599 I think this is a, a pretty relevant one. 32 00:01:17,809 --> 00:01:20,119 One time my dad lost his car keys, right? 33 00:01:20,119 --> 00:01:21,650 He never liked to lose your car keys. 34 00:01:21,650 --> 00:01:22,908 It's not, not a fun thing. 35 00:01:22,908 --> 00:01:26,029 And he didn't have a, well, actually no, he did have a spare cuz my mom had a set. 36 00:01:26,390 --> 00:01:27,740 But he lost his car keys. 37 00:01:27,740 --> 00:01:29,360 It had like two of the cars on it. 38 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:33,050 The house key had a like couple keys for the church building all these 39 00:01:33,050 --> 00:01:34,610 different keys on it, and he lost them. 40 00:01:34,940 --> 00:01:37,700 So he had been searching for a few days trying to find his car keys. 41 00:01:37,700 --> 00:01:38,390 Where can I find 'em? 42 00:01:38,390 --> 00:01:38,960 Where are they? 43 00:01:39,229 --> 00:01:40,550 Gets the whole family involved. 44 00:01:40,550 --> 00:01:41,990 We're searching all over the house. 45 00:01:42,050 --> 00:01:45,079 We didn't find 'em for three days, all right? 46 00:01:45,110 --> 00:01:47,329 It took us three days and we're searching the house. 47 00:01:47,329 --> 00:01:49,430 We're looking everywhere, tearing things apart. 48 00:01:49,490 --> 00:01:54,680 Well, and to our shame, we had not taken the time to just say, all right, let's 49 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:56,660 just take a second and let's just pray. 50 00:01:57,470 --> 00:02:01,760 Let's pray and maybe God will reveal to us what the keys are. 51 00:02:01,789 --> 00:02:03,800 We didn't do that until the third day. 52 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:05,269 All right, we're gonna confess there. 53 00:02:05,300 --> 00:02:07,100 Not, not very spiritual. 54 00:02:07,940 --> 00:02:10,669 The third day though, at least we did get to it, and we, 55 00:02:10,669 --> 00:02:11,900 we get together as a family. 56 00:02:11,905 --> 00:02:13,880 We're standing there and we're like, all right, let's just take 57 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:15,350 a moment and let's just pray. 58 00:02:15,355 --> 00:02:18,380 Maybe God will reveal to us where the keys are. 59 00:02:18,980 --> 00:02:20,300 So we say a prayer. 60 00:02:20,690 --> 00:02:21,860 I kid you not. 61 00:02:21,950 --> 00:02:25,700 One minute after we say Amen, my dad gets a phone call. 62 00:02:26,810 --> 00:02:29,480 And it's one of the, the, the members of the church. 63 00:02:29,780 --> 00:02:31,250 And they're like, Hey, how you doing? 64 00:02:31,250 --> 00:02:32,540 My dad's name is Steve, how you doing? 65 00:02:32,540 --> 00:02:33,200 Steve? 66 00:02:33,590 --> 00:02:35,810 And my dad's like, oh, hey, how, how are you doing? 67 00:02:37,130 --> 00:02:39,260 And my dad asked him, so why'd you call me? 68 00:02:39,470 --> 00:02:41,480 And they're like, I have no idea. 69 00:02:42,470 --> 00:02:43,970 . I have no idea why I called you. 70 00:02:44,750 --> 00:02:46,280 And my dad's like, well, that's odd. 71 00:02:46,340 --> 00:02:48,380 Well, I've been looking for my car keys and I can't. 72 00:02:48,380 --> 00:02:52,850 And then he stopped and he was like, the last time I saw my car keys, 73 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:58,010 I was getting something out of the trunk for this person's husband. 74 00:02:59,960 --> 00:03:02,690 And he was like, and so he runs downstairs, he's like, my 75 00:03:02,690 --> 00:03:03,950 keys have to be in the trunk. 76 00:03:03,950 --> 00:03:07,070 He runs downstairs, opens the trunk, looks through the whole 77 00:03:07,070 --> 00:03:08,270 trunk, can't find the keys. 78 00:03:08,270 --> 00:03:09,470 He's like, oh man, it's not there. 79 00:03:09,470 --> 00:03:12,260 So I'm like, well, look underneath the, the, the spare tire. 80 00:03:12,260 --> 00:03:13,640 Maybe it got slipped under. 81 00:03:14,269 --> 00:03:17,659 He rips up the, the, the mat looks under the spare tire and 82 00:03:17,659 --> 00:03:22,309 there are his keys sitting right there underneath the spare tire. 83 00:03:22,369 --> 00:03:25,130 And he was like, I have no idea how I got. 84 00:03:25,159 --> 00:03:26,329 Oh yeah, there's some keys there. 85 00:03:27,650 --> 00:03:30,289 . He has no idea how they got there. 86 00:03:30,380 --> 00:03:34,280 I guess he left them in the trunk and drove, you know, used my, my mom's keys 87 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:35,480 drove off and they slipped under there. 88 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:35,929 Who knows? 89 00:03:36,139 --> 00:03:38,929 But he lost them and then he found them three days later. 90 00:03:38,929 --> 00:03:40,429 All right, so what's the moral of the story? 91 00:03:40,429 --> 00:03:41,960 It ain't fun to lose stuff. 92 00:03:42,019 --> 00:03:42,679 Okay. 93 00:03:42,889 --> 00:03:46,280 Caused a lot of pain, a lot of frustration, but hey, when we 94 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:48,170 prayed, God provided, all right. 95 00:03:48,170 --> 00:03:49,639 God always provides. 96 00:03:49,820 --> 00:03:53,300 But today, the reason I bring this story up, the reason I bring up this idea of 97 00:03:53,300 --> 00:03:56,900 losing something is because we're gonna be looking and turning in our Bibles 98 00:03:56,900 --> 00:04:03,469 to Luke chapter 15 and talking about how the real Jesus finds what was lost. 99 00:04:03,650 --> 00:04:04,280 Amen. 100 00:04:04,579 --> 00:04:07,519 The real Jesus finds what was lost. 101 00:04:07,525 --> 00:04:08,719 Turn with me, if you will. 102 00:04:09,500 --> 00:04:10,910 To Luke chapter 15. 103 00:04:10,910 --> 00:04:12,710 We're gonna jump into a powerful message here. 104 00:04:12,710 --> 00:04:17,300 I don't have it on the screen, so we gotta go old fashioned and turn to our Bibles. 105 00:04:17,300 --> 00:04:17,690 Amen. 106 00:04:18,010 --> 00:04:18,500 Amen. 107 00:04:18,829 --> 00:04:22,400 We're gonna read the whole chapter together here of Luke chapter 15, 108 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:25,640 and we're gonna see three different instances where Jesus explains 109 00:04:25,645 --> 00:04:27,770 a parable of losing something. 110 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:28,550 Okay. 111 00:04:29,330 --> 00:04:34,820 Luke 15 verse one says, now the tax collectors and sinners were all gathering 112 00:04:34,820 --> 00:04:38,540 around to hear Jesus, but the Pharisees and the teachers of the law mutter. 113 00:04:38,540 --> 00:04:40,370 This man welcomes sinners and eats with them. 114 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:45,920 Then Jesus told them this parable, suppose one of you has a hundred sheep 115 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:50,300 and loses one of them, doesn't he leave the 99 in the open country and go 116 00:04:50,305 --> 00:04:52,820 after the lost sheep until he finds it? 117 00:04:53,300 --> 00:04:56,960 And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. 118 00:04:57,470 --> 00:05:01,520 Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, rejoice with me. 119 00:05:01,525 --> 00:05:03,140 I have found my lost sheep. 120 00:05:03,740 --> 00:05:08,600 I tell you that in the same way, there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one 121 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:13,160 sinner who repents than over 99 righteous persons who do not need to repent. 122 00:05:13,850 --> 00:05:18,650 Or suppose a woman has 10 silver coins and loses one, doesn't she 123 00:05:18,650 --> 00:05:22,730 light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it. 124 00:05:22,790 --> 00:05:25,460 And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together 125 00:05:25,460 --> 00:05:26,900 and says, rejoice with me. 126 00:05:27,050 --> 00:05:29,120 I have found my lost coin. 127 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:33,650 In the same way I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels 128 00:05:33,650 --> 00:05:36,260 of God over one sinner who repents. 129 00:05:36,860 --> 00:05:37,880 Jesus continued. 130 00:05:38,060 --> 00:05:40,310 There was a man who had two sons. 131 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:45,320 The younger one said to his father, father, give me my share of the estate. 132 00:05:45,470 --> 00:05:47,540 So he divided up his property between them. 133 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:52,040 Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had set 134 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:56,780 off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. 135 00:05:57,183 --> 00:06:00,965 After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole 136 00:06:00,965 --> 00:06:03,845 country, and he began to be in need. 137 00:06:04,115 --> 00:06:08,494 So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country who sent him 138 00:06:08,494 --> 00:06:11,465 to, to, to his fields to feed pigs. 139 00:06:11,764 --> 00:06:15,365 He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, 140 00:06:15,514 --> 00:06:17,735 but no one gave him anything. 141 00:06:18,335 --> 00:06:22,085 When he came to his senses, he said, how many of my father's 142 00:06:22,085 --> 00:06:23,795 hired servants have food despair? 143 00:06:23,795 --> 00:06:26,075 And here I am starving to death. 144 00:06:26,615 --> 00:06:29,555 I will set out and go back to my father and say to him, father, I have 145 00:06:29,555 --> 00:06:31,445 sinned against heaven and against you. 146 00:06:31,865 --> 00:06:35,075 I am no longer worthy to be called your son. 147 00:06:35,795 --> 00:06:37,744 Make me like one of your hired servants. 148 00:06:37,805 --> 00:06:42,244 So he got up and went to his father, but while he was still a long way 149 00:06:42,244 --> 00:06:47,345 off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him. 150 00:06:47,825 --> 00:06:51,215 He ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him. 151 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:55,460 The, the son said to him, father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. 152 00:06:55,460 --> 00:06:59,030 I am no longer worthy to be called your son. 153 00:07:00,170 --> 00:07:02,720 But the father said to his servants, quick, bring the 154 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:04,040 best robe and put it on him. 155 00:07:04,190 --> 00:07:06,590 Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. 156 00:07:06,590 --> 00:07:08,690 Bring the fatten calf and kill it. 157 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:10,820 Let's have a feast and celebrate. 158 00:07:10,970 --> 00:07:11,360 For this. 159 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:13,760 Son of mine was dead and is alive again. 160 00:07:13,820 --> 00:07:16,130 He was lost and is found. 161 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:17,900 So they began to celebrate. 162 00:07:18,020 --> 00:07:19,700 Meanwhile, the older son was in the field. 163 00:07:19,700 --> 00:07:22,550 When he came near the house, he heard music and dancing. 164 00:07:23,330 --> 00:07:26,960 So we called one of the servants and asked him what was going on. 165 00:07:27,230 --> 00:07:28,880 Your brother has come. 166 00:07:28,910 --> 00:07:32,150 He replied, and your father has killed the fatten calf because 167 00:07:32,150 --> 00:07:34,490 he has him back safe and sound. 168 00:07:34,909 --> 00:07:37,940 The older brother became angry and refused to go in. 169 00:07:38,630 --> 00:07:42,200 So his father went out and pleaded with him, but he answered his father. 170 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:47,330 Look, all these years I have been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. 171 00:07:48,065 --> 00:07:52,025 Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends. 172 00:07:52,265 --> 00:07:56,026 But when his son of, but when this son of yours who has squandered your 173 00:07:56,425 --> 00:08:00,485 property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fat and cap for him. 174 00:08:01,715 --> 00:08:06,815 My son, the father said, you are always with me and everything I have is yours. 175 00:08:07,295 --> 00:08:10,235 But we had to celebrate and be glad because the bro, this brother of 176 00:08:10,235 --> 00:08:12,335 yours was dead and is alive again. 177 00:08:13,025 --> 00:08:15,125 He was lost and is found. 178 00:08:16,265 --> 00:08:19,505 Alright, so we got a lot to unpack here, right? 179 00:08:19,715 --> 00:08:19,775 Yeah. 180 00:08:19,865 --> 00:08:21,065 A lot to dig into. 181 00:08:22,175 --> 00:08:29,735 But we see that the chapter begins here with these Pharisees, and we see, sorry, 182 00:08:29,735 --> 00:08:33,934 excuse me here, that it begins with the Pharisees and the tax collector, or I'm 183 00:08:33,934 --> 00:08:38,975 sorry, the tax collectors and the sinners were gathered around with Jesus, right? 184 00:08:39,034 --> 00:08:43,235 And then the Pharisees and the religious people were like, here he is again. 185 00:08:43,294 --> 00:08:44,015 Look what he is doing. 186 00:08:44,705 --> 00:08:44,855 Right. 187 00:08:44,855 --> 00:08:46,825 And we've seen this theme already in the book of Luke. 188 00:08:47,375 --> 00:08:52,235 We've seen this theme that Jesus is welcoming the sinners to eat with him. 189 00:08:53,105 --> 00:08:56,975 And so before we dig into anything, that's a great lesson already in 190 00:08:56,975 --> 00:09:00,545 itself, to remember that Jesus will associate with anybody because 191 00:09:00,550 --> 00:09:02,855 he came to save, not to judge. 192 00:09:02,915 --> 00:09:03,215 Amen. 193 00:09:08,465 --> 00:09:10,835 What we're gonna do right now is we're gonna dig into 194 00:09:11,345 --> 00:09:12,635 the three different parables. 195 00:09:12,665 --> 00:09:15,515 We're gonna look at the three different types of things, or the 196 00:09:15,515 --> 00:09:18,665 three different things that were lost and Jesus' response to them. 197 00:09:18,665 --> 00:09:21,815 And so we're gonna start off here with the sheep. 198 00:09:22,565 --> 00:09:23,315 All right? 199 00:09:23,495 --> 00:09:24,935 Let's talk about sheep for a second. 200 00:09:25,895 --> 00:09:27,965 Sheep are not the smartest animals. 201 00:09:27,965 --> 00:09:28,625 Okay? 202 00:09:28,685 --> 00:09:30,665 Sheep like to wander off. 203 00:09:31,325 --> 00:09:35,615 They kind of drift away from the flock at times, and there's a huge 204 00:09:35,615 --> 00:09:37,685 need for sheep to have a shepherd. 205 00:09:37,805 --> 00:09:37,865 Yeah. 206 00:09:37,985 --> 00:09:40,115 That's why shepherds are a theme. 207 00:09:40,145 --> 00:09:40,775 Okay? 208 00:09:41,675 --> 00:09:44,975 , they have to shepherd the sheep because sheep will start wandering. 209 00:09:45,425 --> 00:09:50,375 And so the first parable of the lost sheep tells us that God cares for each 210 00:09:50,375 --> 00:09:56,435 of his children, and he rejoices when even one turns to him gimme some water. 211 00:09:58,295 --> 00:10:04,685 It says he leaves the 99 sheep to reach out for the lost one to find it, and 212 00:10:04,685 --> 00:10:07,415 then he rejoices when he finds it. 213 00:10:08,165 --> 00:10:10,715 And so we understand that this idea that sheep wander, right? 214 00:10:10,775 --> 00:10:14,224 Sheep like to go and they like to get into problems. 215 00:10:14,255 --> 00:10:17,435 That's why you see lions and bears will attack sheep because 216 00:10:17,435 --> 00:10:19,054 they're easy, an easy prey. 217 00:10:19,235 --> 00:10:21,275 And so there's a need for a shepherd. 218 00:10:21,545 --> 00:10:24,425 You know, I think this can be relevant in our lives and could 219 00:10:24,425 --> 00:10:26,764 be applied to our lives today. 220 00:10:26,974 --> 00:10:30,095 Some of us at times can be a little bit like sheep. 221 00:10:31,355 --> 00:10:31,835 All right? 222 00:10:31,865 --> 00:10:33,065 We can start to wander. 223 00:10:33,665 --> 00:10:34,985 We may start to drift. 224 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:36,710 We may start to get distracted. 225 00:10:36,710 --> 00:10:37,699 Oh, look at this over here. 226 00:10:37,699 --> 00:10:38,179 I want to go. 227 00:10:38,179 --> 00:10:39,949 I want to go check out this area. 228 00:10:39,980 --> 00:10:40,880 Oh, look at that over there. 229 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:41,779 That's how sheep are. 230 00:10:41,779 --> 00:10:42,320 Right? 231 00:10:42,349 --> 00:10:44,929 And sometimes we do that spiritually speaking. 232 00:10:44,929 --> 00:10:49,400 We get distracted and we start losing focus of our spiritual walk 233 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:51,079 with God, and we get distracted. 234 00:10:51,199 --> 00:10:55,909 Whether it's through different things like compromising in our convictions. 235 00:10:56,150 --> 00:10:59,840 Maybe it's a lack of just being disciplined and spending time with 236 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:04,880 God, reading our Bibles, praying to God, being in a relation, excuse 237 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:08,029 me, in a relationship with him and desiring to grow closer to him. 238 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:08,630 Right. 239 00:11:08,690 --> 00:11:08,989 Thank you. 240 00:11:09,650 --> 00:11:16,969 Sometimes maybe it's, we can just forget to invite people into our lives to speak 241 00:11:16,974 --> 00:11:21,199 into what's really going on in our lives and give us wisdom, and give us advice, 242 00:11:21,204 --> 00:11:25,579 and give us discernment on how to think about how to do things in our daily lives. 243 00:11:25,585 --> 00:11:26,599 We need help. 244 00:11:26,900 --> 00:11:27,139 Yeah. 245 00:11:27,199 --> 00:11:29,690 But sometimes we don't invite that and we get away from that. 246 00:11:30,260 --> 00:11:32,179 Maybe it's distractions of this world. 247 00:11:32,210 --> 00:11:33,889 We're gonna talk about that a little bit later. 248 00:11:33,950 --> 00:11:37,610 But maybe we get distracted by the worries of this world, whether it's 249 00:11:37,610 --> 00:11:41,690 financial, whether it's a health issue, and they're real issues. 250 00:11:42,079 --> 00:11:46,340 But we allow that to, to, to take us away and start wandering from 251 00:11:46,340 --> 00:11:49,460 the flock, wandering away from what Jesus really is trying to do. 252 00:11:49,460 --> 00:11:52,610 And that is be in his presence and be united with him. 253 00:11:52,610 --> 00:11:54,619 But we can get away from that sometimes. 254 00:11:54,619 --> 00:11:55,520 You guys with me? 255 00:11:56,570 --> 00:11:58,340 That's sort of how sheep acts. 256 00:11:58,369 --> 00:11:59,780 That's how sheep are. 257 00:12:00,950 --> 00:12:05,300 And we've gotta admit, sometimes when we're in that spot, sometimes we've 258 00:12:05,300 --> 00:12:09,170 gotta admit when we're acting like a sheep and we're starting to wander and 259 00:12:09,170 --> 00:12:11,690 drift and gotta be vulnerable and humble. 260 00:12:11,780 --> 00:12:16,159 Cuz what we see is that Jesus welcomes us back. 261 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:16,639 Amen. 262 00:12:16,700 --> 00:12:19,220 Jesus wants to have a relationship with you. 263 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:23,540 Jesus wants to bring you back into His presence regardless of 264 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:25,369 how far you may have wandered. 265 00:12:25,815 --> 00:12:26,305 Amen. 266 00:12:26,435 --> 00:12:30,305 No matter how far you've wandered, maybe if you look back on your life in the past, 267 00:12:30,305 --> 00:12:31,565 maybe you haven't wandered right now. 268 00:12:31,565 --> 00:12:32,795 Maybe you're close to God right now. 269 00:12:32,795 --> 00:12:33,244 Amen. 270 00:12:33,244 --> 00:12:33,994 That's great. 271 00:12:34,085 --> 00:12:34,204 Amen. 272 00:12:34,385 --> 00:12:37,325 Maybe some of us have wandered, but I know at some point in our lives 273 00:12:37,325 --> 00:12:38,974 we have been distant from God. 274 00:12:40,445 --> 00:12:44,315 It's not a great feeling, but the best feeling is when Jesus welcomes 275 00:12:44,315 --> 00:12:48,994 us back, calls us to repentance, and we get reunited with him. 276 00:12:48,994 --> 00:12:49,505 Amen. 277 00:12:49,655 --> 00:12:50,145 Amen. 278 00:12:51,815 --> 00:12:56,765 You know, even though we may wander like sheep, Jesus is willing to rescue you. 279 00:12:57,175 --> 00:12:57,665 Amen. 280 00:12:57,724 --> 00:12:58,204 Amen. 281 00:12:58,295 --> 00:13:03,395 Jesus is willing to rescue you no matter where you've been, where you've gone. 282 00:13:04,355 --> 00:13:09,335 No matter how far, how deep and ugly the sin may feel that you may be in 283 00:13:09,335 --> 00:13:12,065 right now or have been in in the past. 284 00:13:12,575 --> 00:13:15,755 Jesus wants to welcome you back and I hope that message 285 00:13:15,755 --> 00:13:17,255 is clear this morning for you. 286 00:13:17,974 --> 00:13:22,105 No matter where you're at, what you've done, Jesus will welcome you back. 287 00:13:23,304 --> 00:13:25,625 He wants to invite you back like a good shepherd. 288 00:13:25,625 --> 00:13:28,744 He says, I'll leave the 99 to save the one uhhuh. 289 00:13:29,734 --> 00:13:32,975 That's how Jesus views our souls. 290 00:13:32,975 --> 00:13:36,335 He values our souls deeply. 291 00:13:36,814 --> 00:13:40,685 He cares so much for our lives and for our souls. 292 00:13:40,835 --> 00:13:41,104 Amen. 293 00:13:41,104 --> 00:13:44,854 Brothers and sisters, let's not forget, no matter how far we may wander, 294 00:13:44,885 --> 00:13:47,885 he'll always come searching for us. 295 00:13:48,005 --> 00:13:49,685 Let's look at the next parable here. 296 00:13:50,345 --> 00:13:52,925 The parable of the lost coin, right? 297 00:13:52,930 --> 00:13:57,904 And we see that this idea of the lost coin is that this lady had, I believe it says, 298 00:13:57,909 --> 00:14:02,454 it says she had 10 silver coins, right? 299 00:14:02,944 --> 00:14:04,234 Put a quarter up there. 300 00:14:05,734 --> 00:14:06,935 Best we can do, right? 301 00:14:08,555 --> 00:14:10,024 For, for our relate. 302 00:14:10,564 --> 00:14:11,465 We don't go by coins. 303 00:14:11,470 --> 00:14:11,734 Okay? 304 00:14:11,765 --> 00:14:12,454 Let's say 10. 305 00:14:12,484 --> 00:14:14,165 $1,000 bills. 306 00:14:14,435 --> 00:14:17,194 How about we say that you lose a hundred dollars bill, you're gonna go, 307 00:14:17,194 --> 00:14:19,024 whoa, I better look for that, right? 308 00:14:19,085 --> 00:14:21,604 I'm gonna tear apart the house and search for that thing. 309 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:24,500 Right, and it says, doesn't she light a lamp? 310 00:14:24,500 --> 00:14:27,170 Sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it. 311 00:14:27,170 --> 00:14:29,750 Kind of like how my dad lost his car keys, right? 312 00:14:29,755 --> 00:14:32,780 We had to tear apart the whole house to find those car keys. 313 00:14:32,780 --> 00:14:36,470 You know, the second parable of the lost coin, it shows us that 314 00:14:36,470 --> 00:14:41,330 every soul is significant and valuable to God, even though it 315 00:14:41,330 --> 00:14:43,810 may seem insignificant to us, okay? 316 00:14:44,330 --> 00:14:48,650 Even though it may seem insignificant in the grand scheme of things, sometimes 317 00:14:48,770 --> 00:14:54,290 we can discount things and sometimes we neglect the value of even our own souls. 318 00:14:54,290 --> 00:14:59,960 Sometimes we neglect the value when we begin to value things of this world, 319 00:15:01,010 --> 00:15:05,270 kind of like we talked about earlier, and we allow ourselves to get stuck 320 00:15:05,330 --> 00:15:08,650 into patterns of this world, right? 321 00:15:09,410 --> 00:15:12,350 There's a lot of patterns in this world that we may get stuck in in our daily 322 00:15:12,350 --> 00:15:16,250 lives, and we allow ourselves to drift into that cuz we're no longer seeing the 323 00:15:16,250 --> 00:15:18,770 value of our soul that Jesus has for us. 324 00:15:19,144 --> 00:15:21,934 And we start viewing it from a worldly perspective. 325 00:15:23,465 --> 00:15:27,564 Romans 12 verse one says, do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be 326 00:15:27,569 --> 00:15:30,694 transformed by the renewing of your mind. 327 00:15:31,114 --> 00:15:36,154 Then you'll be able to test and approve what God's will is his good, 328 00:15:36,159 --> 00:15:38,885 pleasing, and perfect will will. 329 00:15:41,194 --> 00:15:45,305 Let me ask you this morning, what may be some of the patterns of this 330 00:15:45,305 --> 00:15:47,255 world that influence your life? 331 00:15:48,814 --> 00:15:50,375 What is it that may influence you? 332 00:15:52,055 --> 00:15:55,564 I think some of us don't realize it sometimes. 333 00:15:55,564 --> 00:15:58,024 How much the world really is influencing us. 334 00:15:58,024 --> 00:15:58,114 Yep. 335 00:15:58,864 --> 00:16:06,364 This world has a strong pull, a strong force, a spiritual force that's 336 00:16:06,364 --> 00:16:10,984 trying to pull us away from Jesus. 337 00:16:12,215 --> 00:16:15,875 You know, we can get influenced by social media. 338 00:16:15,915 --> 00:16:16,404 Yeah. 339 00:16:17,369 --> 00:16:25,130 TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, YouTube. 340 00:16:25,189 --> 00:16:26,180 How many am I missing? 341 00:16:26,184 --> 00:16:27,829 Any of Be real. 342 00:16:29,449 --> 00:16:29,630 All right. 343 00:16:29,630 --> 00:16:30,470 That's a new one. 344 00:16:30,649 --> 00:16:33,439 We allow these and are these bad things in nature? 345 00:16:33,444 --> 00:16:34,909 I think they can be used for good. 346 00:16:35,149 --> 00:16:37,040 So I'm not here to bash social media. 347 00:16:37,100 --> 00:16:42,470 I'm here to talk about how it can influence us to not be like Christ. 348 00:16:42,475 --> 00:16:42,779 Yeah. 349 00:16:43,050 --> 00:16:46,939 Talk about and when we're on it too much, when we're consuming our lives 350 00:16:46,939 --> 00:16:53,500 with it on a daily basis, rather than consuming ourselves with the word of God. 351 00:16:54,279 --> 00:16:54,769 Okay. 352 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:59,779 Then we start drifting and we become lost, like a lost coin underneath the 353 00:16:59,779 --> 00:17:01,729 couch, getting all dusty and dirty. 354 00:17:02,899 --> 00:17:05,118 Because we're not close to Jesus. 355 00:17:05,180 --> 00:17:08,779 We're not seeing the significance of being close with him. 356 00:17:09,470 --> 00:17:11,569 Maybe for some of us it's politics. 357 00:17:11,569 --> 00:17:13,909 Oh, the election's coming up next year. 358 00:17:14,930 --> 00:17:16,159 Yeah, I said it. 359 00:17:16,159 --> 00:17:17,240 It's coming up. 360 00:17:18,109 --> 00:17:21,260 Past two years, been relatively quiet. 361 00:17:21,260 --> 00:17:22,550 How's it gonna be in a year? 362 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:28,040 Things are gonna start influencing us. 363 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:29,780 We're gonna see things on the news. 364 00:17:29,780 --> 00:17:32,030 We're gonna see things on, on the internet. 365 00:17:32,060 --> 00:17:33,830 We're gonna hear from our neighbors. 366 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:37,940 Are we gonna allow that to shape our view of Christ and his church? 367 00:17:38,300 --> 00:17:42,560 Are we gonna allow that to shape the way we see this lost world? 368 00:17:43,340 --> 00:17:47,780 Or are we gonna allow Jesus and his word to shape us? 369 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:50,720 Maybe for some of us, it's our jobs. 370 00:17:51,949 --> 00:17:53,180 It's maybe making money. 371 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:55,909 I think this, this can be a hard one. 372 00:17:56,090 --> 00:18:02,510 I think for me, being a young man in 2023, I want to try to make money. 373 00:18:02,510 --> 00:18:06,650 I have a side business that I do, and it's hard for me sometimes 374 00:18:06,890 --> 00:18:08,570 to not allow that to consume me. 375 00:18:09,230 --> 00:18:11,960 And I just focus on that rather than focus on God's mission. 376 00:18:12,590 --> 00:18:15,650 And I allow money to become something that influences me. 377 00:18:17,210 --> 00:18:20,390 I don't know what it is for you, but we can't allow the patterns 378 00:18:20,390 --> 00:18:22,700 of this world to con control us. 379 00:18:22,790 --> 00:18:22,940 Yep. 380 00:18:23,390 --> 00:18:26,750 We can't conform to this world's patterns, this world's patterns is 381 00:18:26,750 --> 00:18:28,730 gonna lead us back to being lost. 382 00:18:28,820 --> 00:18:29,030 Yeah. 383 00:18:29,060 --> 00:18:29,340 Yeah. 384 00:18:29,810 --> 00:18:30,660 That's a good point. 385 00:18:30,660 --> 00:18:31,020 Come on. 386 00:18:31,460 --> 00:18:36,860 You know Jesus again, he values our souls so much, and when we lose 387 00:18:36,860 --> 00:18:41,630 sight of the value of our soul, we lose sight of the real Jesus. 388 00:18:43,700 --> 00:18:48,710 Jesus begins an unrelenting pursuit for your soul. 389 00:18:48,740 --> 00:18:53,720 When you start to wander and drift, Jesus begins to, to go after you. 390 00:18:53,790 --> 00:18:55,280 You start sending people at you. 391 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:57,320 I don't know if that's ever happened, where you maybe Ms. 392 00:18:57,320 --> 00:19:00,140 Church and someone calls you up, Hey, I missed you at church. 393 00:19:00,140 --> 00:19:00,560 Where you at? 394 00:19:00,590 --> 00:19:02,810 That's Jesus sending someone to get you. 395 00:19:03,020 --> 00:19:04,490 Come on saying you're wandering. 396 00:19:04,490 --> 00:19:05,615 Now, I'm not saying you Ms. 397 00:19:05,615 --> 00:19:06,650 Church once in a blue moon. 398 00:19:06,830 --> 00:19:09,110 It's not the end of the world, but you get my point. 399 00:19:09,470 --> 00:19:09,530 Yeah. 400 00:19:10,190 --> 00:19:17,210 Jesus will not stop pursuing you, and he will never give up on you regardless 401 00:19:17,390 --> 00:19:23,659 of how long it takes, how ugly it looks, how frustrating it may feel. 402 00:19:24,290 --> 00:19:26,270 How many curve balls are thrown at him. 403 00:19:26,900 --> 00:19:30,949 He ain't giving up because he values your soul so much and he 404 00:19:30,949 --> 00:19:32,600 was gonna find you and save you. 405 00:19:33,110 --> 00:19:35,360 You know the woman who was looking for that lost coin in the 406 00:19:35,360 --> 00:19:37,699 parable, it says she rejoices. 407 00:19:37,730 --> 00:19:40,370 When she finds it, she rejoices. 408 00:19:40,430 --> 00:19:41,510 She's fired up. 409 00:19:41,510 --> 00:19:42,680 I found the coin. 410 00:19:42,740 --> 00:19:44,000 I found the a hundred dollars bill. 411 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:46,220 You guys would all be fired up if you found your a hundred dollars bill. 412 00:19:46,220 --> 00:19:46,940 You lost. 413 00:19:46,945 --> 00:19:47,630 Yeah, right. 414 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:51,890 Imagine how much more Jesus feels when his soul is reunited with him. 415 00:19:55,850 --> 00:19:56,690 Shut this thing off. 416 00:19:56,695 --> 00:19:57,140 Here we go. 417 00:20:01,684 --> 00:20:02,345 You guys with me? 418 00:20:02,585 --> 00:20:02,944 Yeah. 419 00:20:02,949 --> 00:20:03,284 Yeah. 420 00:20:03,425 --> 00:20:05,975 So this is the view that Jesus has. 421 00:20:05,975 --> 00:20:10,925 The real Jesus views your life, your soul, in a way none of us could imagine. 422 00:20:11,644 --> 00:20:16,925 He loves you deeply, but we allow ourselves sometimes to not 423 00:20:16,930 --> 00:20:20,524 have the same type of view and value, the same type of things. 424 00:20:20,529 --> 00:20:21,965 Guys, let me just throw this out there. 425 00:20:21,965 --> 00:20:26,465 If we saw the value of our souls the way Jesus saw it, we would 426 00:20:26,465 --> 00:20:31,805 be motivated even more than ever to want to go save other souls. 427 00:20:31,894 --> 00:20:31,955 Yeah. 428 00:20:33,125 --> 00:20:37,175 If we saw, wow, Jesus loves me that much, he would do anything. 429 00:20:37,625 --> 00:20:40,925 Think about how much that should fill us up to go spread. 430 00:20:40,955 --> 00:20:42,755 I love that video we saw, right? 431 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:43,085 Yeah. 432 00:20:43,255 --> 00:20:47,495 We, we just wanna spread the good news to Christ of Christ, spread it to all of our 433 00:20:47,495 --> 00:20:53,765 neighborhoods, tell all of our coworkers, invite them to a relationship with 434 00:20:53,769 --> 00:20:56,975 Jesus, you know, for the campus students, and we share our faith on campus. 435 00:20:56,975 --> 00:20:59,555 I try not to say, Hey, invite, don't invite 'em to the club. 436 00:20:59,974 --> 00:21:01,594 Of, you know, we have a on-campus club. 437 00:21:01,594 --> 00:21:04,594 Don't invite 'em to necessarily, I mean, sure, bring them to an event 438 00:21:04,594 --> 00:21:09,274 that's great, but invite 'em to a relationship with the Almighty God 439 00:21:09,274 --> 00:21:10,804 who loves you more than anyone. 440 00:21:11,245 --> 00:21:11,734 Amen. 441 00:21:11,885 --> 00:21:15,245 That's what we're inviting him to, is a relationship with Jesus. 442 00:21:15,245 --> 00:21:15,814 Amen. 443 00:21:15,844 --> 00:21:16,335 Amen. 444 00:21:17,135 --> 00:21:18,455 That's what should motivate us. 445 00:21:19,295 --> 00:21:22,594 The last one here is the Parable of the Lost Son. 446 00:21:23,074 --> 00:21:23,554 Right. 447 00:21:23,795 --> 00:21:25,444 This is a very famous parable here. 448 00:21:25,444 --> 00:21:30,604 We all know, most of us may know sort of the idea and the story behind this one. 449 00:21:30,604 --> 00:21:31,144 Right? 450 00:21:31,205 --> 00:21:33,635 It's that the, the prodigal son, right? 451 00:21:33,665 --> 00:21:35,314 He tells us about god's. 452 00:21:35,495 --> 00:21:41,885 It tells us so much about God's grace and mercy, despite what we do, despite 453 00:21:41,889 --> 00:21:46,955 the, the ugliness we may go through, even in the face of rebellion, in 454 00:21:46,955 --> 00:21:50,314 the face of disobedience, disrespect. 455 00:21:50,795 --> 00:21:56,585 The father waited and looked for that son, says he saw, saw him way 456 00:21:56,585 --> 00:21:59,104 out in the distance, ran up to him. 457 00:21:59,674 --> 00:22:04,894 Hugged him, put a robe around him, treated him with honor. 458 00:22:05,795 --> 00:22:06,694 He didn't deserve it. 459 00:22:08,104 --> 00:22:11,674 None of us deserve the honor that Jesus wants to give. 460 00:22:11,894 --> 00:22:12,755 Yep, that's right. 461 00:22:13,174 --> 00:22:14,284 To all of us. 462 00:22:14,314 --> 00:22:14,375 Yeah. 463 00:22:14,554 --> 00:22:15,844 None of us deserve that. 464 00:22:16,444 --> 00:22:22,205 It's a complete sacrifice that Jesus dying on the cross has given us an 465 00:22:22,210 --> 00:22:24,934 opportunity to be united with him. 466 00:22:26,074 --> 00:22:27,364 It's amazing. 467 00:22:29,434 --> 00:22:37,924 And when we see that sometimes in our lives, I think that God, we may put 468 00:22:37,929 --> 00:22:43,264 God in a box and we may feel like we're restricted and we may feel like we gotta 469 00:22:43,264 --> 00:22:44,974 just follow the, these set of rules. 470 00:22:44,974 --> 00:22:48,724 And you know, as a kid growing up and in the teen ministry, I'm gonna 471 00:22:48,724 --> 00:22:50,194 speak to the teens for a second. 472 00:22:51,845 --> 00:22:54,364 I felt restricted in my relationship with God. 473 00:22:54,364 --> 00:22:57,425 I felt like I had to fit in this box, be a good Christian boy. 474 00:22:57,425 --> 00:22:58,955 My dad was preaching on Sundays. 475 00:22:58,955 --> 00:23:04,354 I had to look good all the time, and I put God into a little box. 476 00:23:04,444 --> 00:23:08,795 I said, I gotta just be this picture perfect disciple of Jesus. 477 00:23:09,934 --> 00:23:13,505 And I didn't allow myself to think outside of the box and think about, 478 00:23:13,505 --> 00:23:15,784 wow, God just wants to know me. 479 00:23:15,965 --> 00:23:17,764 He just wants to be united with me. 480 00:23:17,944 --> 00:23:19,444 I made it about the rules. 481 00:23:19,444 --> 00:23:22,595 I made it about all the stuff you don't do as a Christian, right? 482 00:23:22,599 --> 00:23:22,694 Yeah. 483 00:23:22,955 --> 00:23:25,114 But Christianity's not about all the things you don't do. 484 00:23:25,114 --> 00:23:27,335 You never go ask like the best athlete in the world. 485 00:23:27,335 --> 00:23:30,064 Hey, tell me all the things you don't do to become the best athlete in the world. 486 00:23:30,064 --> 00:23:31,144 That's a weird question. 487 00:23:31,205 --> 00:23:31,694 Yeah. 488 00:23:31,984 --> 00:23:33,665 You ask him, how did you get here? 489 00:23:33,665 --> 00:23:34,234 What'd you do? 490 00:23:34,234 --> 00:23:37,385 What are you doing in our relationship with God? 491 00:23:37,389 --> 00:23:38,614 It's the same thing we're asking. 492 00:23:39,395 --> 00:23:42,905 Or what we're trying to do is we're trying to be in a relationship with him. 493 00:23:42,905 --> 00:23:45,965 What are we doing rather than all the sin we're trying to avoid? 494 00:23:46,025 --> 00:23:48,035 No, it's, man, I just, I just wanna love you. 495 00:23:48,215 --> 00:23:49,625 I just wanna be connected with you. 496 00:23:49,805 --> 00:23:51,425 I just wanna help people with you. 497 00:23:51,635 --> 00:23:53,705 I want to be able to impact souls with you. 498 00:23:53,975 --> 00:23:56,795 When you're thinking that way, it's not about all the things you don't 499 00:23:56,800 --> 00:24:00,095 do, it's about all the things you get to become and do with Christ. 500 00:24:00,100 --> 00:24:00,285 Amen. 501 00:24:00,285 --> 00:24:01,245 Come on, come on. 502 00:24:01,265 --> 00:24:04,115 But that was hard for me to understand. 503 00:24:05,105 --> 00:24:08,675 And I think some of us at times can get enticed by the world's desires. 504 00:24:08,675 --> 00:24:11,675 We can get enticed and we can get pulled and dragged, and we allow 505 00:24:11,675 --> 00:24:15,665 ourselves to believe the lie that life without God can be better. 506 00:24:15,785 --> 00:24:15,875 Mm-hmm. 507 00:24:16,475 --> 00:24:18,005 . And that's just simply not true. 508 00:24:18,395 --> 00:24:18,485 Yep. 509 00:24:19,925 --> 00:24:22,205 We see that through the story of the prodigal son. 510 00:24:22,205 --> 00:24:26,705 We see that he goes and squanders all his wealth, realize it's he's empty. 511 00:24:27,395 --> 00:24:28,565 Says, I gotta go back. 512 00:24:28,895 --> 00:24:30,005 It's the only thing I got. 513 00:24:31,925 --> 00:24:34,625 And again, what do we see this idea of? 514 00:24:34,625 --> 00:24:37,535 Jesus says, I'm gonna take you back. 515 00:24:37,939 --> 00:24:40,460 Not only am I gonna just take you back and make you one of my 516 00:24:40,460 --> 00:24:42,260 servants, I'm gonna anoint you. 517 00:24:43,069 --> 00:24:44,479 I'm gonna give you value. 518 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:48,350 I'm gonna treat you as though this never even happened. 519 00:24:49,399 --> 00:24:50,989 That's how he views us. 520 00:24:51,649 --> 00:24:52,140 Amen. 521 00:24:52,519 --> 00:24:54,529 Even that's what grace is. 522 00:24:54,534 --> 00:24:54,620 Yep. 523 00:24:55,159 --> 00:24:58,909 Just as if you had never even done it, you never even sinned. 524 00:24:58,970 --> 00:25:03,019 That's what Jesus' grace means for your life, brothers and sisters. 525 00:25:03,529 --> 00:25:07,550 And so as we're closing out here, the message in these three parables, 526 00:25:07,555 --> 00:25:09,140 I hope is very clear to you. 527 00:25:09,439 --> 00:25:15,319 No matter how far we may wander, God always invites us to return to him. 528 00:25:16,130 --> 00:25:19,699 He always invites us to return to him. 529 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:22,279 But I think this question here is really important. 530 00:25:23,420 --> 00:25:26,359 How do we respond to that invitation? 531 00:25:26,870 --> 00:25:27,019 Come on. 532 00:25:27,380 --> 00:25:31,159 How do we respond to this invitation? 533 00:25:31,519 --> 00:25:34,279 And I think it's really important that we get in touch with this. 534 00:25:34,279 --> 00:25:36,380 Really important, we connect with this this morning. 535 00:25:36,980 --> 00:25:41,480 That we, you consider how you think about this in your daily spiritual walk. 536 00:25:41,900 --> 00:25:46,970 How do you respond to that invitation of being welcomed back to Christ? 537 00:25:47,360 --> 00:25:48,950 Do you take it for granted? 538 00:25:49,910 --> 00:25:52,730 Do you take it in vain? 539 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:57,050 Do you just continue to do the things you've been doing or do you allow 540 00:25:57,050 --> 00:26:02,440 that to motivate you to change, motivate you to grow, motivate 541 00:26:02,445 --> 00:26:06,110 you to dig deeper in your love for Christ because he showed you love? 542 00:26:06,110 --> 00:26:10,640 First, as we close out, I want to ask a couple questions here. 543 00:26:11,930 --> 00:26:13,490 Are we like the lost sheep? 544 00:26:13,580 --> 00:26:14,750 I don't know where you're at this morning. 545 00:26:14,750 --> 00:26:19,730 Are you like the lost sheep, unaware that you may even need rescuing? 546 00:26:20,210 --> 00:26:23,990 Maybe you've wandered off, maybe you've been drifting little by 547 00:26:23,990 --> 00:26:26,570 little and you don't, you, you're waking up and you're like, whoa, 548 00:26:26,630 --> 00:26:28,370 I didn't even realize where I was. 549 00:26:32,750 --> 00:26:34,730 Maybe some of us are like the lost coin. 550 00:26:35,555 --> 00:26:41,585 neglecting the value of our soul, not seeing it the way Jesus sees it. 551 00:26:42,095 --> 00:26:44,585 And we need to course correct and we need to start seeing 552 00:26:44,585 --> 00:26:46,580 it the way Jesus values it. 553 00:26:48,755 --> 00:26:53,375 And maybe some of us are like the prodigal sun, thinking the grass is greener on the 554 00:26:53,375 --> 00:26:56,345 other side and leaving the father's love. 555 00:26:57,125 --> 00:26:59,585 Maybe some of us are drifting away and we're like, man, it just looks 556 00:26:59,585 --> 00:27:01,175 so much better to go do that. 557 00:27:01,715 --> 00:27:03,485 Oh, I don't have to give as much to the church. 558 00:27:03,490 --> 00:27:05,495 I can just go and do what I want. 559 00:27:06,725 --> 00:27:09,875 Thinking that's gonna fulfill you wherever you're at this morning. 560 00:27:09,875 --> 00:27:13,745 Brothers and sisters, I want us to take a moment to reflect on these questions. 561 00:27:13,985 --> 00:27:17,855 Ask yourself, which one of these am I identifying most with? 562 00:27:18,005 --> 00:27:20,195 Which one is sticking out to me the most? 563 00:27:20,705 --> 00:27:24,784 And consider if we need to turn to God and seek his forgiveness. 564 00:27:25,835 --> 00:27:28,805 Bottom line is we're all imperfect, we're all sinners, 565 00:27:28,805 --> 00:27:31,175 and we all need the grace of God. 566 00:27:31,685 --> 00:27:34,045 So let's take the time to consider man. 567 00:27:35,930 --> 00:27:36,590 Where am I at? 568 00:27:37,550 --> 00:27:38,900 What's really going on? 569 00:27:39,949 --> 00:27:43,159 I wanna encourage you to invite people into your life, to help you 570 00:27:43,220 --> 00:27:47,210 process and think through this, study this out, maybe through looking at 571 00:27:47,210 --> 00:27:49,610 the word of God, talking about it. 572 00:27:49,699 --> 00:27:55,430 This will help you grow and understand and learn more about the real Jesus. 573 00:27:55,670 --> 00:27:59,960 Come on, and let me remind you, even if you have strayed from the path 574 00:27:59,960 --> 00:28:03,590 of righteousness, let's say you've been a Christian for 25 years and 575 00:28:03,590 --> 00:28:08,120 you're starting to wander and drift, even if you're there, God will 576 00:28:08,150 --> 00:28:10,730 always be there to welcome you back. 577 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:12,670 That is who God is. 578 00:28:14,390 --> 00:28:17,449 God does not hold a record of wrongs against us. 579 00:28:18,739 --> 00:28:19,940 Let's remember that. 580 00:28:20,120 --> 00:28:24,560 Let's, let's focus on that, and he'll welcome you to his loving embrace. 581 00:28:24,565 --> 00:28:25,550 That is who God is. 582 00:28:25,550 --> 00:28:26,180 Amen. 583 00:28:26,699 --> 00:28:27,190 Amen. 584 00:28:27,409 --> 00:28:30,710 And so, As we close out, we got a prayer for the week. 585 00:28:30,710 --> 00:28:31,370 All right, come on. 586 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:32,090 Prayer for the week. 587 00:28:32,090 --> 00:28:35,210 I want us to ask God to reveal the ways that you may have 588 00:28:35,210 --> 00:28:37,190 conformed to the world's patterns. 589 00:28:37,430 --> 00:28:39,380 All of us can get stuck in this. 590 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,440 All of us in here, maybe it's, maybe it's social media and you're 591 00:28:42,445 --> 00:28:43,850 starting to let that influence you. 592 00:28:44,060 --> 00:28:47,540 Maybe it's a certain sin that you're, you're giving into whatever it is. 593 00:28:47,540 --> 00:28:51,500 What are the patterns you need to identify and ask God to reveal that to you? 594 00:28:52,430 --> 00:28:56,420 And your prayer for the week is, I want us to identify, or that was the prayer. 595 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:57,380 This is the action step. 596 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:01,100 Identify one way that God has rescued you. 597 00:29:02,690 --> 00:29:04,280 This is really important. 598 00:29:05,150 --> 00:29:08,750 It's so important to identify how God really has saved you and rescued 599 00:29:08,750 --> 00:29:14,120 you, so that way you can understand the significance of your soul to God. 600 00:29:14,659 --> 00:29:18,320 And when you allow that to penetrate your heart, now you can 601 00:29:18,324 --> 00:29:20,480 start to help others say Amen. 602 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:20,630 Amen. 603 00:29:21,290 --> 00:29:26,720 And so let us take heart knowing that we serve a God who never gives up on us. 604 00:29:27,515 --> 00:29:32,705 Never gives up, but instead relentlessly pursues us until we are found. 605 00:29:33,815 --> 00:29:37,955 You know, this was shown to us through no greater action than Jesus 606 00:29:37,955 --> 00:29:39,365 dying on the cross for our sins. 607 00:29:39,370 --> 00:29:39,785 Amen. 608 00:29:40,025 --> 00:29:40,295 Amen. 609 00:29:40,535 --> 00:29:47,285 Jesus displayed that physically 2000 years ago by dying for your sins. 610 00:29:47,495 --> 00:29:51,635 He loves you, he values your soul, and he wants to welcome you back. 611 00:29:51,815 --> 00:29:53,420 Let's say a word of prayer and we'll take communion together. 612 00:29:55,715 --> 00:29:58,385 Lord, thank you so much for this morning and this time to be able 613 00:29:58,385 --> 00:30:02,795 to dig into your word a little bit, to be able to, to recognize 614 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:07,205 that you save those who are lost. 615 00:30:08,285 --> 00:30:11,045 God, I'm so grateful that you've saved me. 616 00:30:13,235 --> 00:30:17,615 I'm so grateful that I've been saved from so much heartache, so much 617 00:30:17,620 --> 00:30:22,055 pain, and you've saved so many others in this room from the same thing. 618 00:30:23,435 --> 00:30:24,965 Lord, you've saved so many of us. 619 00:30:26,104 --> 00:30:32,495 And brought us so close to you, God, and I am so grateful for the sacrifice of 620 00:30:32,495 --> 00:30:38,194 Jesus dying for our sins, Lord, the the grace that we've been able to receive, 621 00:30:38,255 --> 00:30:45,594 the mercy, the love God, it inspires and compels us to live for you so that we can 622 00:30:45,599 --> 00:30:50,705 grow your kingdom, that we can grow in our knowledge and love for your son Jesus. 623 00:30:51,424 --> 00:30:54,665 And we can love as many people along this journey as well. 624 00:30:55,174 --> 00:30:56,014 God, we love you. 625 00:30:56,014 --> 00:30:59,614 We thank you that you've revealed to us who the real Jesus is. 626 00:30:59,824 --> 00:31:03,634 We pray that we continue to follow him and connect with him this morning. 627 00:31:03,634 --> 00:31:05,434 And Jesus name I pray, amen.